The 38-year-old insisted that she wasn't intimidated by the Hollywood megastar and that the best way of winning him over was by making him laugh.

She said: "When you could really make Clint laugh, he gets a really teethy laugh and it's so rewarding to get one of those. I always felt a certain sense of victory if I could get him to laugh like that."

In The Trouble with the Curve, Adams plays Eastwood's estranged daughter who tags along with the baseball scout when his eyesight begins to wane.